Hykel Hosni, who will spend
his two year Marie Curie IEF Fellowship at CPNSS on the project
"Rethinking Uncertainty: A problem-based approach". He will work
closely with the
Managing Severe Uncertainty group.

Mike Otsuka, who arrived from
UCL to take up a position as Professor of Philosophy.

Bryan Roberts, who arrived from
University of Southern California to take up a position as Lecturer.

Events

You are invited to the
2013
Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture and Reception, organised by the Department's
Popper Memorial Fund and entitled The "Cunning of
Uncertainty"
on Tuesday 15th October,from 18:30 to 20:00 in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building. The speaker is Professor
Helga Nowotny (President
of the European Research Council and Professor emerita of
Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich).
The chair will be Professor John Worrall. #LSEuncertainty

Sigma Club:
Samuel Fletcher (Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of
California Irvine) will give a talk entitled "On the Reduction of
General Relativity to Newtonian Gravitation", on Monday, 4 November
from 17:15 to 18:45, in LAK 2.06.

BSPS
London Meetings:
Chris Timpson (Oxford) will give a
talk entitled "Timelike experimental metaphysics: What does
violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality show?" on Monday, 14
October, from 17:15 to 18:45, in LAK 2.06.

The Popper Seminars: Professor
Mike Otsuka (LSE) will
give a talk entitled "How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is
Worse Off than One Would Have Been" on 12 November at 14:00 in LAK
2.06.

News

Alex Voorhoeve,
Reader in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method,
appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show The Philosopher's Arms on August
6 at 3:30 pm to discuss exploitation. To listen, click
here.